Melle Mel and Flash get back together on an album, it's 1988. But it sucks like it stayed five years earlier. We must find some merit, there's the fact that the disc doesn't see the presence of ballads (even if "The King" tries, with his R&B pop dance vibes).
There are some pretty decent scratches around the hooks, good soulful female samples looped in the background and some listenable jazzy bridge appear. However, the rest is regrettable. The hooks are too simplistic, a single line that repeats the title, often scratched. The rhythms are simple and essential, the drum machine works in a minimal way to create funky, skinny and hard beats that were fine up to three or four years before, then the sound evolved. And the rapping has evolved, in this effort instead Melle Mel and Flash deliver in a vintage way, sometimes hardcore, never inspired. It seems to me that they go out of time several times (not on purpose) and yes, even attempting a kind of delivery back and forth, probably in an attempt to imitate Run and D.M.C. with frankly disheartening results. After the title track, which is pretty mediocre as the previous ones, the LP turns on dance pop and R&B rhythms on which the MCs try a more chill rapping, but their delivery is always weak and poor, which is why in the second part of the listening you completely lose your interest in listening. It closes an instrumental track, but I tell you right now, you don't even notice it.
Rating: 4/10.
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